An Introduction to CSCL

CSCL: An Historical Perspective. by Gerry Stahl, Timothy Koschmann and Daniel Suthers based on a chapter in: R. K. Sawyer (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press -- with permission of the publisher. This chapter is intended as an introduction to CSCL. It reviews the history, provides numerous references for further study and outlines a direction for future work. The view of CSCL, its origins and its future is very much a particular perspective -- that of the authors. We felt this chapter was worth making available on a global basis, so we had it translated into a number of major world languages (thanks to Nan Zhou, Fei-Ching Chen, Hugo Fuks, Cesar Collazos, Martin Muehlpfordt and Stefan Trausan-Matu):

Some publications on CSCL

"Translating Euclid" published in the Morgan & Claypool series of Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics in 2013. Contains over 300 pages of theoretical, methodological, philosophical, pedagogical and interactional analysis related to the Virtual Math Teams Project as an extended CSCL design-based research effort to create a human-centered approach to dynamic-geometry education. Details and links are available at http://GerryStahl.net/elibrary/euclid.

"Studying Virtual Math Teams" published in the Springer CSCL book series in 2009. Contains 28 essays written between 2004 and 2008 by members of the VMT research team and international collaborators. Table of content and pre-publication versions of the essays are available at http://GerryStahl.net/vmt/book.

"Group Cognition:Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge" published by MIT Press in 2006. Contains 22 essays written between 1993 and 2004. Table of content and pre-publication versions of the essays are available at http://GerryStahl.net/mit.

A chronological list of over 300 publications by Gerry Stahl from 1975 to the present with links to the documents is available at http://GerryStahl.net/pub

A list of over 200 publications about the Virtual Math Teams project by members of the VMT research team and international collaborators with links to the documents is available at http://GerryStahl.net/vmt/pubs.html

Videos on CSCL

Video on group cognition in CSCL: my ISLS Webinar in December 2013 on "The Philosophy of Group Cognition"

Video from a CSCL Seminar 2006

Discussion of "Building Collaborative Knowing: A Social Theory of CSCL". Video clips from a seminar on CSCL by Gerry Stahl at Drexel University on Chapter 3 of Strijbos, et al. (2004) "What We Know About CSCL" = Chapter 15 of Stahl (2006) "Group Cognition" click here for the videos and click here for chapter

Keynote talks

Closing plenary paper session

Daniel D. Suthers, "Technology
Affordances for Intersubjective Learning: A Thematic Agenda for CSCL"
(QuickTime 7 video 53 Mb). An expanded
version of this paper is available in ijCSCL.

Rupert Wegerif, "Towards
a Dialogic Understanding of the Relationship between CSCL and Teaching
Thinking Skills" (QuickTime
7 video 51 Mb). An expanded version of this paper is available in
ijCSCL.

Gerry Stahl, "Group Cognition:
The Collaborative Locus of Agency in CSCL" (QuickTime
7 video 65 Mb). An expanded version of this paper is available in
Stahl (2006) Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative
Learning, MIT Press.